CHAPTER SIX

IN THE MOVE OF CHRIST
DURING HIS BURIAL
AND
IN THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

Scripture Reading: 1 Pet. 3:18b-20a; Luke 23:46; Rom. 4:25b; Acts 13:33; Rom. 8:29; 1 Cor. 15:45; Eph. 2:6a; 1 Pet. 1:3; Heb. 2:10; John 12:24; 1 Cor. 10:17; John 7:38-39; Acts 5:30-31; Eph. 1:20-23; Phil. 3:10; 2 Cor. 4:10

OUTLINE

1. In the move of Christ during His burial—1 Pet. 3:18b:
1. The crucifixion of Christ having put Christ to death only in His flesh and not in His spirit (His spirit was committed into the hands of the Father at His expiration—Luke 23:46).
2. His spirit having been made alive, enlivened, with new power of life, so that in this empowered spirit He made a proclamation to the fallen angels after His death in the flesh and before His resurrection—1 Pet. 3:19-20a.
2. In the resurrection of Christ:
1. Proving that God's requirements were satisfied by the death of Christ for us, that we are justified by God because of Christ's death, and that in Christ, the resurrected One, we are accepted before God; and making the resurrected Christ live within us a life that can be justified by God and is always acceptable to God—Rom. 4:25b.
2. Begetting the incarnated Christ as God's firstborn Son—Acts 13:33; Rom. 8:29.
3. Making Christ, who was the last Adam in the flesh, the life-giving Spirit—1 Cor. 15:45.
4. Raising the believers up with Christ from the dead—Eph. 2:6a.
5. Regenerating all the believers in Christ as God's many sons—1 Pet. 1:3; Heb. 2:10; Rom. 8:29.
6. Releasing the divine life from the one grain broken through the death of the cross of Christ to produce many grains for the constitution of the Body of Christ—John 12:24; 1 Cor. 10:17.
7. Carrying out the flow of the Spirit—John 7:38-39.
8. Forming the base of His move in the ascension of Christ for the formation of the church, the Body of Christ—Acts 5:30-31; Eph. 1:20-23.
9. Empowering the believers with the power of Christ's resurrection for the conformation to His death in the believers' Christian walk—Phil. 3:10.
10. Carrying out the effectiveness and killing of the death of Christ for the release of the divine life in resurrection—2 Cor. 4:10.